Switzerland’s largest commerce union issued a press release on Saturday demanding a “large discount” of working hours with full wage compensation for decrease and revenue earners.
This content material was revealed on December 4, 2021 – 16:24
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“Nowhere in Europe do individuals work as onerous as in Switzerland. At current, workers work a median of 41.7 hours per week in a full-time job,” the union famous in a press release after its 66 delegates met within the Swiss capital, Bern.
Whereas the variety of hours labored has remained secure, the union famous that work depth and pace are growing. ”Consequently, stress-related diseases are on the rise. Staff develop into exhausted, fall unwell or are excluded from the labour market,” it acknowledged.
The assertion didn’t outline what number of hours the union believes an individual ought to work in a full-time job.
On common, a full-time worker within the rich nations of the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Growth (OECD) works 37 hours per week. The European Union common is 31.1 hours per week.
The union, which is against plans to extend the retirement age in Switzerland, known as for “extra time to stay as an alternative of working longer and longer”. The productiveness positive factors ought to lastly profit the individuals who generated them, it argued.
A number of nations and corporations around the globe have been testing shorter work weeks, together with Iceland, Sweden and New Zealand. Shorter work weeks have in lots of instances been related to boosted productiveness.
The concept has additionally gained traction throughout the coronavirus pandemic which has introduced work-family steadiness into sharp focus amid lockdowns and residential workplace necessities.